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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Ol' Pat would have been happy as a Isolationist Senator in the 1920s voting for the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. The world has changes and Pat is in a time warp.
20 posted on 08/24/2006 8:20:17 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (This space for rent.)
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To: Mike Darancette
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.

55 posted on 08/24/2006 8:58:35 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: Mike Darancette
Someone really needs to tell Pat, that Lindberg has flown the Atlantic.
72 posted on 08/24/2006 9:34:59 PM PDT by Valin (http://www.irey.com/)
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